If You Haven’t Got Your Mental Health, You Haven’t Got Anything

Do you ever just feel like you need a mental health day ? Like even more than all the other days ? Like you just wanna punch the next person who asks you how your day is in the face? Like you’re super anti-social and it just so happens that everyone wants you to hang out with them or go to x,y, and z today ? Every day is peaches and rainbows and unicorns? 

Movie Review: The Great Gatsby

With a rich 1920s landscape to play within, a very capable list of actors, an award-winning visual director, a hip soundtrack, and material that everyone is required to read in high school, The Great Gatsby has all of the ingredients of pure filmmaking genius and against all odds, grasps failure from the jaws of success.

It is hard to know where to start when a movie is such a big failure in so many different ways as is The Great Gatsby. Based on the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, screen writer and director Baz Luhrmann hacks apart, distorts concepts, over-stylizes visuals, makes poor choices with music, pulls bad performances from good actors and transforms quality material into long-winded pretentiousness.

G.I. JOE : RETALIATION ( Movie Review )

If you’re looking for an action film with attractive actors, then this just might be the film for you. GI Joe: Retaliation is the second of the GI Joe films to grace our screens (GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra released in 2009).

Movie Review : ARGO

Argo, the story of a CIA “exfiltration” agent tasked with getting American hostages out of the Iranian revolution, is a wonderfully paced, perfectly shot and fantastically acted film. An all-star cast spearheaded by actor/director Ben Affleck, Argo brings grit and honesty to a story that needed to be told.

With Academy Award caliber acting from talents such as Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, and a show-stealing Alan Arkin, each actor brings the perfect balance of intensity and humor. Most notable is the performance of Arkin, who plays an absolutely hysterical Hollywood producer recruited to provide an alibi for the CIA. With so many moments of tenseness, Arkin’s performance of Lester Siegel allows the audience a chance to breathe, reflect on the levity of the events unfolding, and possibly most importantly, laugh.

How to cope with exam pressure

Learning half an hour for two weeks before an exam is likely to be better than learning for two hours while you’re waiting to go in.

Nervousness is the enemy, it stops you thinking, and if you’re not thinking during an exam then you’re not going to do too well.

Find out the important stuff: know what happens if you fail.

How your brain likes to be treated at revision time

If you're a student, you rely on one brain function above all others: memory.

These days, we understand more about the structure of memory than we ever have before, so we can find the best techniques for training your brain to hang on to as much information as possible. The process depends on the brain's neuroplasticity, its ability to reorganise itself throughout your life by breaking and forming new connections between its billions of cells.

How does it work? Information is transmitted by brain cells called neurons. When you learn something new, a group of neurons activate in a part of the brain called the hippocampus. It's like a pattern of light bulbs turning on.